I'm amazed at all the people on this website convinced that there's no such thing as leftists with conservative families.
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A+ pfp game. Always was, always will be
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000306519404200109
Psychoanalytic case material is presented to illustrate how mother-son incest may be involved in the pathogenesis of a particular subtype of narcissistic personality disorder. Male patients with this disorder have a grandiose view of themselves as entitled to occupy a special position with others, combined with a paranoid tendency to anticipate imminent betrayal. The enormous guilt related to perceived oedipal transgressions leads these patients to fear retaliation from an enraged, vindictive, and castrating father at any moment. In addition, these men often feel that their special role vis-à-vis mother is a precarious one contingent on doing her bidding. Hence, they also live in dread of an impending disaster involving either abandonment or humiliation by their mothers.
...fair enough
They're gonna go the Ted Faro route
See, the thing is, most Democrat representatives are good people, but the ones at the top are corrupt and in Capital's pocket. That's how they got to the top, by being greedy. The ones with integrity who can't be bought, they're actually most of the party. Just, it's most of the bottom. But still, those people with integrity can win out in the end, because the system is democratic to some level. It's just that the corrupt people at the top can put a bunch of barriers in their way which take time to clear, while the Republicans barrel full steam ahead with the bad stuff. For example, Trump likes to sign executive orders, while Biden preferred passing laws. That's because Biden was corrupt. But he still actually has to do his job.
Now take a look at this graph:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_trifecta#/media/File:Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png
In order to raise the minimum wage, the Democrats need control of the House and the Senate. They had that from 2007-2011, and 2021-2022. You can see that right here in the graph. The first time it happened, minimum wage increase! Party time. But the next time, when we should have had a minimum wage increase in 2021?
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/05/democrats-15-minimum-wage-hike-473875
8 corrupt dipshits. They only had to bribe 8 people. 42 good people who had integrity, but 8 assholes. If the minimum wage had risen in 2021, Kamala would have won easily. People would have believed her when she said she improved the economy. She would have done exactly the same amount, but people would have been better off and believed her and voted for her. And then we wouldn't have an active immigrant genocide and an impending trans genocide. We'd have another decade of time to work on organising to throw a revolution, thereabouts. Trump would die some time around 2027 and they'd take another 4 years to find their new guy who can do what Trump does.
But imagine if more of that graph had been blue, so we had more chances like 2007 and 2021. Imagine if there had been more representatives with integrity in the 2021 vote. Both of those are decisions directly made by the voters. The voting people get to choose how much of that graph is blue, and how many senators have integrity. There were good people like Bernie Sanders in that room. There are good people like Zohran Mamdani trying to get into rooms like that one.
Americans elect corrupt politicians and then complain that their politicians are corrupt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate#Membership
In 45 states, a primary election is held first for the Republican and Democratic parties (and a select few third parties, depending on the state) with the general election following a few months later. In most of these states, the nominee may receive only a plurality, while in some states, a runoff is required if no majority was achieved. In the general election, the winner is the candidate who receives a plurality of the popular vote.
The people who register as democrats get to choose who the democratic senate nominees are. Two people per state. If you read that news article I linked, you know which 8 states have traitor senators. You know those senators' names. You can talk to people in those states and tell them that their representatives betrayed them. If you change minds, then laws will change too. It's not easy to convince 300 million people to act in their own best interests, but it's the same damn job that organising a communist revolution is. We have to either convince 200 million to spend one day a year helping, or 15 million to risk their lives helping. I try to do both at the same time. Radicalise each person as far as I can. If I turn them into a communist, great. If I turn them into an informed voter, good. Not great, but better than nothing.
I'm not your brother in Christ, asshole. I'm not a christian, I'm not a male, and I'm not engaging with you anymore.
Fascism feeds on desperate and angry people. Economic reforms pre-empt fascism, while neoliberal economic policy leads inevitably towards fascism. Come on, this is basic Marxian analysis.
A tankie will never do either of those two things
Tankies love to post these memes about how it's hopeless to resist fascism and there's nothing we can do, but what they like to forget is that we leftists have the option of rising against the state, not just by voting, but also by organising for general strikes, civil disobedience, and armed revolution.
Should I switch to using Arthur.Sulzberger@nytimes.com instead?
I tried explaining my problems with tankies without calling them tankies. In fact, I used their own terminology to describe my disagreement with them. It, uh... well it doesn't make a lot of sense.
George Orwell fought in the Spanish civil war on the side of the Marxists. His army was betrayed by the Marxist-Leninists. After that experience, he wrote 1984, in which a totalitarian government uses "newspeak" to suppress dissent by suppressing the very ideas that people are capable of communicating. I don't think it's a coincidence that Marxist-Leninists describe their disagreements in terms that turn criticism of them into gibberish. I think it's exactly what Orwell was writing about based on his experiences.
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Thank you very much for posting the video length. I wasn't gonna watch a 10 minute video but 2 was short enough.